Farmers jailbreaking John Deere tractors to repair them - video

[greyhoundollie]

Every family farmer out there knows that when the tractor, combine, picker etc breaks down it is ALWAYS in the furthest place in the field, usually across a gully or some other condition that makes taking care of the problem extra hard. Us folks who use older equipment are a little bit blessed with the fact that, our old tractor, combine etc, usually is able to limp out of the field or at least to a place where it is more accessible to make a repair.

When the modern million dollar equipment wont run, it wont run even a little bit. And worse it can't be repaired where it sits because it needs the computers reprogrammed in town. The field technician who shows up to assess the problem doesn't want to walk across the muddy field and get his $1,200 cowboy boots dirty. His first step is telephone to start scheduling large equipment to pick up/pull/carry your tractor out of the field and to the city for repair. Before he has hung up his cell phone he has already spent several thousand dollars of your money.